People v. Queen

MR. JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH,

specially concurring:

I agree that the failure of the trial court to consider the jury’s request to hear the defendant’s testimony in the erroneous belief that it did not have discretion to do so requires remand for a new trial. I cannot, however, concur in the majority opinion insofar as it treats defendant’s other claim of error arising out of his cross-examination and the comments of the State’s Attorney in final argument. If the opinion stands for the proposition that the objection was not sufficiently specific to preserve the alleged error, then of course the…